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On the seventh day, there was a choice."|[[Keys to the Kingdom]]}}

 

* [[Capital Letters Are Magic]]: All over the place.

* [[Cessation of Existence]]:

'''Will''': There is no afterlife that I know of. There is Nothing, from which all things once came. There is the House, which is constant. There are the Secondary Realms, which are ephemeral. When you are gone from the Secondary Realms that's it, though some say everything returns to Nothing in the end. }}

* [[Chained to a Rock]]: The Old One, a Prometheus-like character (or maybe the real deal) is chained to a clock, from which wooden puppets appear every twelve hours to remove his eyes, which grow back painfully over the next few hours.

* [[Retcon]]: at the end on Mister Monday, Grim Tuesday is asked to destroy a piece of enchanted cloth, presumably to further the [[Big Bad]]'s ends. However, in Sir Thursday it is stated that doing so would ''undo'' the [[Big Bad]]'s enchantment, unraveling their plan.

** Actually, the point was {{spoiler|that the shirt pocket wouldn't be destroyed, but would instead spawn the Skinless Boy (hence why he appears at the end of Grim Tuesday and leaves via the elevator, he was born at some point during the book). It was just that to defeat the Skinless Boy, Arthur himself had to plunge the pocket back into Nothing. Quoting Scamandros on the creation:}}

** {{spoiler|And the Compleat Atlas on the destruction}}:

** Both when a Spirit-Eater was being described in the Atlas, and when the incident with the Gray Spot was mentioned in the last book, they said it was mute, yet Leaf heard it apologizing when it was 'accidentally' bumping into everyone to spread it's influence.

* [[Rule of Cool]]: Pretty much the entire series.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Several. Probably the most notable is [[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner|The Ancient Mariner]] being a major secondary character. And [[Cool Old Guy|he's awesome]]. He also has a ship that can sail in space [[Discworld|shaped like a giant turtle]].

** Subverted, hilariously, when Arthur tries it in-canon.

'''Arthur''': [[Narnia|Through the wardrobe maybe.]]<br />

'''Ichabod''': I doubt that, young mortal. That is where I keep the Captain's clothes. It is not a thoroughfare of any kind.<br />